Software Update: Mozilla Thunderbird 102.1.1

The Mozilla Foundation has released an update to version 102.1.0 of Thunderbird. Thunderbird is an open source email and newsgroup client, with features such as support for multiple mail and news accounts, a spam filter, spell checker, and a customizable appearance. In version 102, which is currently not yet offered as an automatic update from version 91.x, the user interface and address book have been refreshed, importing and exporting user accounts has been made easier, and the Matrix chat protocol has been added. The following changes and improvements have also been made in this update:

changes

• OpenPGP Key Manager will clear selected keys after a deletion is performed

fixes

• Update notification popups were still displayed after switching to another desktop workspace on Linux
• macOS display issues made Thunderbird unusable
• OpenPGP public key was not automatically attached after enabling encryption from reminder and default setting is “Do not encrypt”
• Importing OpenPGP keys stored in binary format failed
• Exporting an OpenPGP public key from Account Settings failed
• Saving encrypted OpenPGP attachments created corrupt files
• Receiving many OpenPGP keys in a single email caused Thunderbird to hang
• POP3 message download progress bar was not displayed
• OAuth2 authentication was not available when the mail domain did not match the OAuth provider domain
• OAuth did not work with some POP servers
• RSS feed URL links in headers panel could not be activated by keyboard
• Self-signed TLS certificates did not work with POP3 connections
• Non-ascii characters in passwords did not work with POP3 connections
• An error was not displayed when an incorrect password was entered for a POP3 account
• NNTP articles were not displayed in preview pane when a Primary Password was set
• NNTP articles did not download when the hostname of the server was not all in lower-case
• Saving NNTP messages to local disk failed
• Drag and Drop from Address Book into Compose window sometimes added unexpected contacts to the target
• “Default” label not shown for emails when editing a contact
• Contact Title, Role, and Organization fields could be displayed in the wrong order
• Contact birthdays on February 29 were displayed incorrectly in non-leap years
• Detection of photos in vCards improved
• Drag and drop contacts to another address book was not available
• Contacts stored in a Google CardDAV address book contained extra backslashes in text fields
• Contacts without First/Last/Display Names appeared blank in contact list
• Auto-attaching vCard and OpenPGP keys did not always work as expected
• Settings page used caused excessive CPU usage
• Calendar did not respect Date and Time Formatting in Settings
• OpenPGP Key Import wizard did not adapt to dark theme
• Various visual and theme improvements
• Various accessibility improvements